No. If you used a pump, when the cut off was reached the tank will already be over filled..... Ie liquid up in the neck.
Sounds like something their wife might say?
The ones I’ve used allow you to select the number of litres and it will auto stop at that. Or just manually stop it from the screen. Do not fill more than the dash says and do not rely on the pumps auto stop as that will be too late. Over filling is the cause of many issues.
The inverted bottle method does not over fill the tank it just stops delivering as the pump aught to. Have you yourself had a problem or are just being prudent following people problems? maybe it different for different vehicles hence why I posted my vehicle details.I regularly fill up from the pump. Do not fill until the pump knocks off!!! Don’t put more than the maximum amount asked for on the MFD. if you “let the pump do its job” you will overfill the tank, and then you will be back here asking how to get rid of the dreaded 600 mile countdown. Don’t ask me how I know this.
I follow the amounts displayed on the MFD. the first time I used a pump, the MFD was asking for a maximum of 10litres. I filled at the pump and wasn’t paying attention, the pump knocked off automatically and I realised I’d put 14litres in and brimmed the tank. The AD Blue distance didn’t reset until I’d done around 1500miles. I.e. until I’d burned off the excess AD Blue and the system had been able to find its datum.
So it appears that in your case the pump was faulty it should have just shut off regardless presuming the nozzle was in the hole which I am sure it was. I suppose one could fill a used AdBlue bottle and watch how quickly or not the pump shuts down it should stop immediately I would have thought 4L over is almost a gallon one might expect it to be pouring out on the ground at that stage.
The pump wasn't faulty, it knocked off as soon as the level got to the end of the gun, i.e. top of the ad-blue filler tank. Which is the whole point, the tank is "full" before the actual level gets to the top of the filler, by that time the tank is overfilled and the system is confused. If it was just a case of filling the tank until it was full, VW wouldn't have gone to the trouble of putting a display on the dash telling us how much to put in.
If that is the case then when i fill with the bottle, I shall have to check. I think that the AdBue is starting to come into the filler neck that might be just that the neck is slow but next time I will try and observe exactly what happens.
Thank for the heads up on Ad-Blue prices. I can imagine the stress inside you cab. the more I read about modern vehicles the more i just wished I stayed with old and tried. I never go any where near London these days and avoid most cities anyway as much as I can now anyway. These are all basically commercial vehicles its a disgrace how temperamental they appear to be.Get 10l of Adblu for £10 upwards, B&Q currently £10, Wickes £13, work out from MFD gallons read out what that is in litres and empty that amount into the Adblu tank.
I've suffered the 650 miles countdown of doom non reset twice, once going to Glasgow and last year in France when we abandoned our trip rather than drive on towards the event horizon to see what happened... properly horrible mind games.
Rarely use a pump as it's more expensive over here. I use 10 litre containers to fill to the brim. Then the AdBlue level when the flow stopped is within reach by finger. Have been doing this 9 years now (on several T6) without issues - simply can't reproduce the AdBlue fault by filling to the brim - so perhaps the issues arise when not replenishing to the brim
